LETTER TO G. V. CHICHERIN

Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeChicherin:

Atelegram from Krasin dated 13.II (File No. 1466/c)
says (Lloyd George): “If the Soviet Government refuses to
recognise the Cannes resolutions that willthreatenthe
break-down of the entire conference and will,in any case,
make it easier for Poincare to walk out....”

Thatis formulated more “threateningly” than accurately!

Butthe whole British press, judging by our papers, has
made frequent statements to the effect that the invitation
to the Genoa Conferencedoes not requireandnever has
required the preliminaryacceptance of the Cannes terms and
that the contrary opinion held by the French is an
incorrect one.

Allthe material must be collected to establishpreciseandformallyindisputable facts.

Itseemed to me that three facts were indisputable:

(1)whenwe were invited it wasnotrequired that we
make a precise, clear and formal declaration ofacceptanceof the Cannes terms;

(2)wedidnotmake any such declaration in our reply,
and we havenot been informedthat our reply isincomplete;

(3)theentireBritish bourgeois press in its dispute with
the Frenchrecognisedthat the preliminary acceptance of
the Cannes’ terms is not obligatory.

Withcommunist greetings,Lenin